I feel most real to myself in the studio.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

All the life will not have any value if you never felt beloved.

Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Marriage still means a lot more in the country I come from than it does here. I don't think there's anything to be gained by it for the couple. But for children I think it's an important thing.

That man who is more then his elements knows the land that is more than its analysis.

It is the will to be grateful which constitutes gratitude.

Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

Grace is God's love in action for those who don't deserve it.